Mon 15, September 2008 @ 21:40
Our autumn journal not surprisingly deals with the
ongoing financial crisis and its implications for the British and
world economy. Our lead article looks at Britain, while we
interview Costas Lapavitsas on the financial crisis and its
implications for Marxist theory. Two reviews continue the analysis,
one a polemic with our former comrades in the LFI who dismiss the
idea of long waves in capitalism.
A major article looks at the new leadership in
Cuba and the direction in which the country is travelling – we
think towards the market. Two other articles on Latin America look
at the political crisis in Bolivia and developments in Chile under
Bachelet.
Other pieces give an impression of the new working
class in China and the history of the US working class. Trying to
explain why the USA has never built a workers’ party is very
relevant in a US election year where the voters again are faced
with a choice between two bourgeois parties.
Our Editorial and Feedback sections address the
thorny question of “left unity”, following a period of failures to
hold together left electoral fronts and parties, in England and
Scotland. It does it in the context of reporting on the growing
discontent and struggles against Labour’s wage freeze.
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Wed 28, May 2008 @ 18:09
There is no shortage of self-reverential
looking back to 1968 in the media – the generation of “68-ers” who
now run a lot of it have made sure of that. For all that, May 68
continues to traumatise our rulers. French President Nicolas
Sarkozy, for example, recently fulminated against its “moral and
intellectual permissiveness”.
In this issue we neither romanticise nor
vilify these events. Rather, in two articles – one on the events in
France, the other on the international setting – we examine the
forces that took to the streets that year and the legacy it has
left us with. Our film review continues the ’68 theme.
In an exclusive interview with a leading
Venezuelan trade unionist we unravel the class dynamics of the
Bolivarian revolution and present it alongside a series of
impressions from a comrade who visited recently.
Will China fall prey to the fall-out from the
global credit crunch? We attempt an answer in this issue when we
examine what lies behind its rapid economic growth and the left’s
confusion on the matter.
Finally we search among the ruins of Labour’s
disastrous spring election results and see if we can detect signs
of life for the far left.
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Tue 27, May 2008 @ 21:35
Permanent Revolution 8, spring 2008
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Mon 03, March 2008 @ 18:03
Permanent Revolution 7 (Winter 2007) is now available to download:
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Sun 17, February 2008 @ 15:04
Joseph Stalin died 50 years ago. The system he brutally forged lived on in the USSR and East Europe until 1989-91. Then, a combination of deep systemic crisis and democratic mass protests shattered the degenerate workers’ states one after another and, finally, the USSR itself....writes Keith Harvey....
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Sat 16, February 2008 @ 11:05
The world’s leaders have finally woken up to the realities of the looming environmental catastrophe. They may argue over the speed with which it approaches and dispute their own culpability, but they are be falling over each other to show willing to do something, even if they don’t ever seem to deliver.
PR’s Environment Pamphlet surveys the solutions on offer from political leaders and environmental campaigners and outlines a socialist alternative.
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Mon 10, December 2007 @ 22:29
Permanent Revolution 6 (Autumn 2007) is now available to download:
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Mon 08, October 2007 @ 18:18
Permanent Revolution 5 (Summer 2007) is now available to download:
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Sat 21, July 2007 @ 17:35
Permanent Revolution First Series is now available.
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Tue 10, July 2007 @ 22:08
Permanent Revolution 4 (Spring 2007) is now available to download
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Fri 18, May 2007 @ 13:48
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If you have read previous issues, send us your comments - did you disagree with the arguments about the world economy? Is the British working class really pale, male and stale? Should prostitution be decriminalised? Were we too harsh on microcredit? Was the Selfish Gene progressive?
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Tue 15, May 2007 @ 17:51
“We hate G8″ - not a mere phrase, it’s our programme! This paper is the perfect reading material for all summit-stormers and society-changers....writes Wladek F...
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Wed 11, April 2007 @ 20:43
Permanent Revolution 3 (Winter 2006) is now available to download from this site.
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Sun 07, January 2007 @ 19:31
Permanent Revolution 2 (Autumn 2006) is now available to download from this site.
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Fri 29, September 2006 @ 17:17
Permanent Revolution 2 out now!
This autumn issue is a 60-page bumper issue packed with analysis and theory. Price £3.00 including P&P. Now with live text versions of articles available to download.
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Sat 15, July 2006 @ 01:20
Sixteen pages of analysis, reviews and reports of struggle can be download for free
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